Outside the Beltway

A unanimous Supreme Court has ordered the administration to comply with a lower court order.

Who are you going to believe, the WSJ or your lying eyes?

Apparently, ex post facto payments are cool.

A reasonable ruling clarifying a poorly-written prior opinion.

A republic if you can keep it, indeed.

The Supreme Court has effectively derailed the main criminal case against the likely Republican nominee.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court is gone at 93.

The justices declined to review a bizarre 4th Circuit decision.

The central question remains unresolved.

The Justice responds to ethics charges.

Dueling headlines give radically different impressions of the same case.

The nation’s highest court has gone all woke.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is signaling an unfavorable ruling.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

The implications of modes of interpretation.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

Doing nothing is still a choice, and the legitimacy crisis is here, like it or not.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

Not of governance.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

A case that should never have made it to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

A law professor reads too much into a cryptic concurrence.

The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on Monday that could make it easier to buy and sell alcoholic beverages across state lines.

President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.

The Supreme Court ruled that a World War One memorial that had been on public grounds for 70 years can stay where it is.

The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

A novel argument, untested in court, suggests that it might.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could make it easier for consumers to buy and ship wine and other adult beverages across state lines.

The Supreme Court appears reluctant to overturn a century of case law that established a significant exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.

The Supreme Court appears ready to impose at least some limits on civil asset forfeiture at the state level.

Yesterday. the Supreme Court heard argument in a case that makes the argument that nearly half of Oklahoma is actually Native American territory.

Sad news from the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.